There’s a girl who wants our assist. Followers have been calling for her “emancipation”. They’re involved she’s being “held hostage”. Stressing that she have to be “let loose” as quickly as doable. However the factor she have to be liberated from is considerably unconventional. It’s not an individual. It’s not some kind of corrupt conservatorship, or a dingy cell. The captor in query is, in actual fact, a luxurious style model. Its sufferer? Margot Robbie.

For months now, fashionistas and Robbie followers have been utilizing the aforementioned language of entrapment – a bit too significantly, truly – to explain her ongoing partnership with Chanel. The overall consensus amongst them is that Robbie has been shackled by the French label’s chains since she grew to become considered one of its model ambassadors in 2018. Particularly, that she’s been pressured right into a collection of designs she doesn’t truly like.

Whether or not there’s any modicum of reality on this concept is unattainable to inform. Nonetheless, in current months, Robbie’s followers have been furiously stating the distinction between the actor’s expression when sporting Chanel in comparison with different luxurious manufacturers. “Margot Robbie in Bottega 𝘃𝘀 in Chanel,” tweeted one individual alongside a collection of images of the 32-year-old within the manufacturers’ respective designs. “Her face says all of it…” they added.

One other viral tweet merely said “Margot Robbie when she’s not in Chanel,” alongside 4 current snaps of the actor smiling in varied ensembles by the likes of Bottega Veneta and Versace – it generated greater than 21,700 likes and hundreds of feedback from folks calling for an finish to Robbie’s take care of Chanel.

The speculation has gone up to now that some have even began to recommend that Chanel has deliberately dressed the actor badly, with movie star stylist Elliot Garnaut labeling her the “worst-dressed” movie star, teasing that somebody at Chanel “clearly hates her”. Even Vogue heralded Robbie’s “new fashion period” when she stepped out in an emerald inexperienced Bottega Veneta gown on the Governors Awards in LA final November.

The feedback have been circulating the web for a number of months, however they picked up tempo at the beginning of this yr forward of awards season – the time by which the crimson carpet turns into an important stage for any dressmaker partnered with a star to showcase their newest designs. On condition that Robbie hadn’t been seen in Chanel for some time, followers had been hopeful that the partnership was over.

A lot to their disappointment, the actor confirmed as much as the Golden Globes final week in a customized high fashion robe from the label that concerned greater than 750 hours of labor. The blush pink, crystal-covered halter-neck robe encapsulated a fragile, girlish aesthetic that marks a stark distinction from a few of Robbie’s current non-Chanel selections – see the variations of loose-fitting, leather-based tailoring she has been sporting to advertise her newest movie, Babylon, or the outsized pinstripe shirt she paired with thigh-high boots on a current outing in London.

The primary gripe, then, appears to be that by sticking by Chanel, Robbie is being made to put on garments that merely don’t replicate her private style. With a complete host of award ceremonies nonetheless to come back, there’s no telling simply how far more Chanel appears the actor’s followers should undergo by. However she is hardly the primary movie star to turn out to be embroiled in a model partnership that many imagine to be out of sync with their pure fashion.

On the 2011 Oscars, Jennifer Lawrence famously wore a slim-fitting scarlet robe by Calvin Klein, a gown that evoked an outdated Hollywood silhouette. Its informal sensibility additionally appeared to replicate Lawrence’s personal low-key, girl-next-door strategy to style on the time. This all modified, although, when Lawrence struck up a $15m take care of Dior and swiftly began sporting grander, extra lavish designs on crimson carpets – keep in mind the strapless Cinderella-style ball robe she famously took a tumble in on the 2013 Oscars?

From a monetary perspective, it is sensible for large manufacturers to associate with massive stars, which is why such preparations have been a staple of Hollywood tradition for years. Nevertheless it looks like years of individuals sporting the identical designer over and over may quickly be behind us. Even when the model’s aesthetic does match yours, fashion is nothing if not an evolutionary course of, one thing that adjustments over time alongside life experiences, private politics, and the relationships now we have with our our bodies. All of these items have a big impact on how we wish to gown; one model couldn’t presumably account for thus many transitions.

Furthermore, the one-brand-fits-all mannequin is wildly out of contact with the sartorial zeitgeist, which relies round cult classic finds. Gone are the times the place customized designer robes packed the largest crimson carpet punch. Oh no. If you wish to make headlines to your look, it’s archival solely, darling.

Celebrities have lengthy favoured classic, after all. In recent times, although, buying well-known appears from the previous has turn out to be style’s biggest pursuit, reflecting a level of standing that merely couldn’t be achieved in something new. The obvious instance is Kim Kardashian ultimately yr’s Met Gala – she wore the long-lasting beaded gown worn by Marilyn Monroe to serenade John F Kennedy on his forty fifth birthday in 1962. Value $4.8m, the gown was loaned to Kardashian by the historic memorabilia organisation Ripley’s Imagine it or Not!, and the truth TV star underwent an excessive weight-loss regime with a view to match into it.

This may be an remoted instance, however in search of standout classic gadgets to put on on the crimson carpet has turn out to be widespread follow for celebrities. It’s one thing we’ve seen from all of style’s main gamers within the final yr, together with Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, Zendaya and Rihanna. Robbie has even been dabbling in it lately herself, sporting a classic Versace robe from the Nineties on the Babylon Australia premiere on Monday. The look was virtually a convincing hit amongst Robbie’s more and more eagle-eyes followers had it not been for the crimson lace that had been hooked up to the gown’s slit. Nonetheless, at the very least she was capable of specific some individuality.

With all this in thoughts, then, maybe the dying knell for long-standing movie star model partnerships is on its manner. Regardless of how massive the paycheck, there’s solely so many instances one can proceed sporting outfits they don’t really feel snug in. And whereas having to put on Chanel on a regular basis is hardly a jail sentence, limiting oneself on this manner defies the very factor that style is meant to be about: taking dangers, pushing boundaries, discovering new methods to specific your self.

Robbie will discover her toes, I’m certain. Within the meantime, her followers may gain advantage from firming it down a tad. In any other case it’s solely a matter of time till #FreeMargot takes maintain of the web. As uninspiring as a few of her current crimson carpet appears have been, I’m not satisfied a world liberation motion is the most effective strategy.